Word: twain
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After he visited remote Mauritius in 1896, Mark Twain quoted an islander as saying: "Mauritius was made first and then heaven; and heaven was copied after Mauritius...
...last week, however, when India's Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, flew into Mauritius' tiny Plaisance Airport for an official five-day visit, the island was beginning to look more like the place that Mark Twain described. Indira's visit was a major event, not just because she was the first chief of state to pay a call since independence, but also because about 67% of Mauritius' 807,000 people are of Indian origin. So, for that matter, is roly-poly Premier Sir See-woosagur Ramgoolam...
Jacob Black, editor of the Bibliography of American Literature: Robert B. Williamson '20, Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court; Justin Kaplan '45, biographer of Mark Twain, winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for biography: Leroy S. Rouner '53, author. teacher, and scholar in the Philosophy of Religion: Eugene G. h Rocow, professor of Chemistry, retiring this year: and Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, winner of the National Medal for Science this year...
Another prominent member of the class is Justin Kaplan, whose biography of Mark Twain won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Kaplan lives in Cambridge so he can be near Widener Library. As a consequence, he is more in touch with students than many of his classmates. While he probably agrees with, most of Goodman's criticisms of their class, he is more gentle about it. (He remembers Calkins as "someone terribly nice.") Kaplan graduated from Horace Mann School in New York, and says when he came to Harvard he was "definitely made to feel marginal." Nonetheless...
Died. Billie Burke, 85, widow of Florenz Ziegfeld, herself a renowned stage and screen star; in Los Angeles. Red-haired and blue-eyed, she reigned as a Broadway beauty through the early 1900s, drawing homage from Mark Twain and Enrico Caruso before capturing Flo Ziegfeld as her husband. Her fame came from her skill as a comedienne in the years after 1930, when she appeared as a flibbertigibbet in scores of plays (Her Master's Voice, Mrs. January and Mr. X) and movies (Topper, The Wizard of Oz, Hi Diddle Diddle). "Oh," she once wrote, "that sad and bewildering...